The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-05
OMMENT AND OPINION.

PoL1r IcIANs have never forgiven the newspa-
pers for outgrowing them.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
STRIKING workmen prove that nature is not
half SO hard as they are themselves.
-Philadelphia Inquirer.
THERE are in the Cabinet two rebel soldiers
and one Union soldier. Sentiments of loyalty
exist IN about the same proportion throughout
the Democratic party.-Chcago Journal
HENRY GEORGE continues to make speeches
that nobody can understand. This is point In
his favor too, for what the Ignorant cannot u n
derstand they udorse.-Atlanta Constitution.
SAD as the executions must be- the bomb as a
revolutionary factor in the attempt to overthrow
the most liberal governmental institutions in
the world must be supposed.-New York World
NEWSPAPER bossism is an impossibility al
much advantage to the public if newspaper con-
ductors nominated candidates instead of party
conventions.-BostonT Transcript
THERE will be trouble from Anarchists
who outside the JAIL when the murderers are
executed. There will be no trouble from Anar-
chists for long time after the rnurderers
cuted They will understand that there is law IL
this land.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
III Mr.. Henry Watterson is really so much and
so frequently annoyed by the proposal of his
name for various honorable Offices, it might oe
well for him to accept some nomination and be
completely showed under. Then people would
leave him alone.-kansas City Journal
GOVERNOR FORAKER ought to give a banquet
to Governor Gordon after the official count of
the votes cast in Ohio is announced. Governor
Foraker is as hospitable as he is gallant. and we
expect to see him make some handsome recog-
milton of the efficient service rendered to the Re-
publican by Governor Gordon.-New
York Mail and Express.
A GREAT great newspaper reaches vast audi
dience, and its influence for good evil is in
calculable. If the man VINO controls it's columns
is disposed TO be narrow and despotic he
work great HARM The reading public is begin
ming to understand this, and 1.-The newspaper
boss" will go the way of all other offcious
and offensive personages.-Louisville CONNER
cial
THERE is not community in America where
the ballots of the working classes do net out
number those of the capitalists where by an
honest, courageous resentat:on of their wrongs
they cannot obtain redress Capital does not
control the ballot-box except where the masses
are divided Indifferent. In fact, no class is
supreme with the ballot in America and this
should be the glory, as it is the safety, of our
institutions. News.
NONE of the time spent by the courts in this
hopeless appeal, has been wasted. It has served
ton of law and the reckless taste of anarchy
It is impossible to have any mercy upon these
men, and the weak-minded persons who have
signed their behalf petitions for pardon
which they refuse to submit for themselves are
justly rebuked. The Supreme Court of Illinois,
in its elaborate review of the trial, showed that
the condemned men were almost equally con-
cerned in the crime. that every one of them was
at least deeply concerned in it. and both in law
and in morals responsible for it.-New York
Times.